R Observatory: Metrics for tinytrail version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinytrail

0.1.0Package record

Lightweight Auto-Updating Project Tracker and Data Dictionary

0packages depend

867downloads / year

69.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tomas ReivingerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Once initialized, the package leaves a 'tiny trail' of human- and AI-readable text that makes it effortless to keep track of small to medium-sized projects. The package is lightweight (hence 'tiny') and maintains a YAML trail file recording which scripts produced which output files. Call tinytrail() once at the top of each script to record metadata, wrap any save call with tinytrail_write() to log the output path, and optionally use tinytrail_dict() to capture a data dictionary for each input data frame.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial release (renamed from tinylog).
tinytrail() registers a script in the project YAML trail and optionally records elapsed runtime.
tinytrail_write() wraps any save call to log the output file path under the calling script's trail entry.
tinytrail_dict() captures column names and sample values for input data frames.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("tinytrail", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("tinytrail-r/tinytrail")

Development version from tinytrail-r/tinytrail. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-tinytrail

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-tinytrail

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-tinytrail

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK5 OK2026-07-05

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 202 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 0%3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with tinytrail HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

867

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,701 · ~2/day · ~72/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21630 days

64990 days

8671 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on25 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

tinytrail-r/tinytrail ↗Organization: tinytrail-r

3Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

60Commits

1Commit identities

60 commits · Last activity 2026-08-04 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-06-27 · 12026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tinytrail-r/tinytrail on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-04 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-04

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-06-27
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tinytrail adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 106 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: yaml 106 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (1)

yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

arrow data.table ggplot2 haven jsonlite kableExtra knitr openxlsx purrr readr rmarkdown rstudioapi testthat tinytable withr writexl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tomas Reivinger

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
record
2026-07-04 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-04
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 383 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tinytrail")

Format

Reivinger, T. (2026). tinytrail: Lightweight Auto-Updating Project Tracker and Data Dictionary (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tinytrail

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tinytrail version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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